Acupressure: Simple Steps to Health: Discover your Body’s Powerpoints For Health and Relaxation
Jacqueline Young
Acupressure is one of the simplest and most truly effective ways to treat yourself – naturally.Our practical guide makes Acupressure simple for even a complete beginner.Very similar to Acupuncture – but without any needles – Acupressure works by applying fingertip or thumb pressure to specific points on the skin along the body’s meridian, or energy, lines.This practical guide demonstrates clearly where to place pressure for each treatment. Our book provides Acupressure workouts for:Beauty – facial acupressure• Mind and emotions• Day to day health – colds, backache, headache, period pains.• Preventative medicine – for healthy heart, lungs, liver, digestive system.• Whole body workouts – for fundamental good health and vitality.There are reader friendly explanations of all stages and the language used is Western rather than Chinese throughout – making this an excellent Healthy Explorer guide.
Dedication (#u66789829-3ebf-58ce-9eee-fc8915f6d06f)
For my mother and stepfather, Joosje and Don Angel – for all their loving support.
For all the participants at my acupressure classes and clinics;
I have so much enjoyed sharing and learning together.
And for all those who read this book: may you gain many
benefits from the practice of acupressure.
Table of Contents
Title Page (#ulink_fbe5dc0b-c2b1-574c-bbb3-424e4d93f478)
Dedication
Foreword
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Acupressure Health Workout
Chapter 1: Acupressure Health Workout
Part Three: Acupressure Health
Chapter 2: The Head
Chapter 3: the Joints
Chapter 4: The Respiratory System
Chapter 5: The Heart and Circulation
Chapter 6: Digestion
Chapter 7: The Urinary System
Chapter 8: The Gynaecological Organs
Chapter 9: Sexual Health
Chapter 10: The Whole Body
Chapter 11: Mental Health
Chapter 12: Pregnancy and Childbirth
Part Four: Acupressure First Aid
Chapter 13 Acupressure
List of Acupoints
Further Reading
Useful Addresses
Practical Reiki A step-by-step guide
Reflexology for Women
Big Book of Ch’i An exploration of energy, form and spirit
Searchable Terms
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
Foreword (#u66789829-3ebf-58ce-9eee-fc8915f6d06f)
This book is different from previous acupressure books written for the lay public in that it focuses on health and preventive health care rather than just on disease. It clearly describes how to balance acupressure points, what the correct sensation is, and how much pressure to apply. It also explains the principles of direction of flow of chi along the meridians and includes complementary techniques such as breathing and visualization, both of which quite definitely affect the flow of chi.
It is an eminently practical book and is very simply set out, with very clear photos and diagrams on what points to use to both optimise health and to treat a whole range of conditions. It can be used perfectly easily without reading the whole book by simply reading the introduction, then looking up your area of concern in the index and turning up the particular part of the book which tells you how to approach it from an acupressure point of view. In each section there is an explanation as to what the points are actually doing, so making this discipline more understandable to the Western mind. This is of great importance, as the concepts underlying acupuncture and acupressure are foreign to the Western mind, making it difficult for us to think in terms of energy and flow of energy around the body. We are culturally pre-programmed to think in terms of organs that we can actually see.
Jacqueline Young has produced an eminently readable text which will be of benefit to anyone who buys this book.
Julian Kenyon, M.D., M.B., Ch.B.
Medical Director, The Dove Clinic for Integrated Medicine, London.
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